Job Description
ROSA Parks Charter High School
Seeking a Dedicated Full-Time Special Education Teacher
The Mission: We provide mutual respect and a sense of belonging. We offer the agency of curiosity, courage, and compassion. You design your future.
The Vision: A new era, a new approach.
The School: ROSA is a staff-empowered 9- 12 high school that welcomes a diverse, historically underserved student population. Nourishing a safe and equitable space, the school accommodates all learning needs. Its small classes promote mentorship while an experiential approach stimulates engagement. Motivating students to embrace self-discovery, the curriculum facilitates the development of knowledge, cultivation of interests, and expansion of possibilities.
The Job: ROSA is seeking a dedicated and innovative full-time educator, either experienced in the field of special education or new to teaching, who values autonomy in the classroom and believes all students deserve a quality education. You must be hard-working and adaptable, able to introduce secondary content and concepts while reinforcing foundational skills, and eager to collaborate with a small staff on meeting the student’s needs and nourishing their boundless potential.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Valid Secondary Special Education Teaching Credential (or a willingness to receive one)
- Experience with behavioral disorders
- Familiarity with due process
- Comfortable working with a diverse, historically underserved student population and sympathetic to individuals' specific obstacles and needs
- One-year experience
- Special Education Certification
Desirable Qualifications:
- Advanced Degree
- Teaching experience at the secondary level
- Reading Specialization
- Background in behavioral strategies
- Knowledge of specialized methodologies for curriculum design and classroom instruction
- Willing to incorporate collaborative, hands-on, project-based, cross-curricular, and experimental approaches and opportunities in courses and with caseload
Performance Responsibilities:
SpEd Duties:
- Manage a caseload of around 20 students
- Provide special education services per the students’ IEPs
- Prepare, schedule, and facilitate IEP team meetings for students in caseload
- Collaborate with team to devise and realize student IEPs, evaluation procedures for SpEd eligibility, and 3-year reevaluations, observing due process timelines
- Monitor student IEP goals and objectives and report progress to department and staff
- Collaborate with team to develop and implement behavioral intervention plans
- Support students and families with issues concerning placement and instruction
- Create and maintain a professional working relationship with students, families, and staff
Classes:
- Establish and manage a welcoming class environment that is inclusive and equitable
- Provide clear grading criteria or a rubric for each course
- Post assignments online and regularly update scores
- Lead respectful and appropriate classroom discussions
- Supervise and collaborate with educational support professionals in the classroom
- Conference with students one-on-one
Additional Responsibilities:
- Co-Advise a Homeroom - Mentor a group of 15 - 20 students from their first day to graduation
- Maintain open communication with staff about special education policies and procedures and assist with their SpEd questions and concerns
Salary and Benefits:
- Full-Time
- $50,000 - $75,000
- Dental, Health, and Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plan
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $50,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to Relocate:
- Rochester, MN 55904: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person